See also: early American news papers and broadcast journalism. Most rich did not invest in these with a profit motive, but for the good of the masses. It was seen as a way for nobility to give back. That ethic has been lost here, for whatever reason.
Anyway, best of luck.
I'm not sure which of these people you are referring to, but my reading of history sure doesn't agree with yours. These were the people responsible for the sobriquet of "robber barons". My favorite sanctimonious prick in history, William Randolph Hearst, gave rise to the term "yellow journalism", was key in starting the Spanish-American war in order to sell more newspapers, and had an instrumental role in making our favorite plant illegal in order to keep hemp from competing with his paper industry investments.